{"id":39073,"date":"2025-11-08T19:27:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T19:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/39073\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T19:27:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T19:27:20","slug":"arrest-made-in-fatal-hit-and-run-at-publix-on-37th-avenue-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/39073\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest Made in Fatal Hit-and-Run at Publix on 37th Avenue North"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">St. Petersburg Police have arrested 85-year-old Darrell Elwin Briggs in connection with a fatal hit-and-run that occurred shortly before 5 p.m. in the Publix parking lot at 200 37th Avenue North.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Investigators say 91-year-old Mary Broughton was struck by a car in the lot. She was transported to the hospital, where she died from her injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Briggs, the driver, left the scene and drove to his home at a nearby apartment complex. Detectives later located the vehicle and took him into custody.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"796\" height=\"996\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_1687.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60565\"  \/>Booking photo of Darrell Elwin Briggs<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Briggs is charged with leaving the scene of a crash involving death. The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. Petersburg Police have arrested 85-year-old Darrell Elwin Briggs in connection with a fatal hit-and-run that occurred shortly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-39073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}